All Quotes

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
‐‐ Hannah Murray

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.
‐‐ George Ryan

Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.
‐‐ Stuart Rose

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
‐‐ Pervez Musharraf

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
‐‐ Robert Mugabe

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
‐‐ Joan Didion

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
‐‐ Jose Clemente Orozco

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
‐‐ Sly Stone

Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
‐‐ Aaron Klein

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
‐‐ Joshua Slocum

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
‐‐ John Clayton

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
‐‐ Joan Didion

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
‐‐ George III of the United Kingdom

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
‐‐ Peter Lewis Allen

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
‐‐ Howard Hughes

Wash your face at the end of the night! There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.
‐‐ John Fogerty

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
‐‐ Paulo Freire

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
‐‐ Mort Sahl

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.
‐‐ Rick Scott

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
‐‐ Dan Brown

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
‐‐ Gordon Parks

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
‐‐ David Brinkley

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
‐‐ Phil Bredesen

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.
‐‐ Russell Pearce

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.
‐‐ John Fleming

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.
‐‐ John Fleming

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
‐‐ Major Owens

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf